Given the pervasiveness of and our reliance upon digital infrastructure, highly organized sophisticated cyber-threat actors have brought serious cyber-risk peril to everyone. Organizational leaders are not aware of the impacts of cybersecurity risk to business assets. Academic institutions are failing to incorporate cybersecurity risk management into business programs leading to inadequately prepared leaders. This explanatory sequential mixed methods study explored 50 U.S. leading business schools’ MBA curricula; identified gaps in cybersecurity risk management course content; and then investigated the quantitative results with a subset of twelve business schools’ MBA program leadership and faculty to advise curricula reform.
